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Vor 3 Tagen · That created a demographic boom and forced the new generations to emigrate en masse in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, mostly to the Americas. The new migration of capital created millions of unskilled jobs around the world and was responsible for the simultaneous mass migration of Italians searching for "work and bread" ( Italian : pane e lavoro ).
Vor 3 Tagen · This same period saw, in the person of Lord Nelson, perhaps the greatest admiral in history. For the rest of the 19th century, the Royal Navy helped enforce what became known as the Pax Britannica—i.e., the long period of relative peace arising from a balance of power between the major European states that depended ultimately on the use of British maritime supremacy.
Vor 3 Tagen · World’s fair, large international exhibition of a wide variety of industrial, scientific, and cultural items displayed at a specific site for a period of time, ranging usually from three to six months. Since the mid-19th century more than 100 world’s fairs have been held in more than 20 countries around the world.
Vor 20 Stunden · The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous peoples of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. It began following the American Conquest of California from Mexico , and the influx of settlers due to the California Gold Rush , which accelerated the decline of the Indigenous population of California.
Vor 2 Tagen · The 19th century witnessed a revival of this political action, with over six million people participating in the activity in 1842. Here, Richardson contends that as ‘parliamentary politics grew more exclusive and formalised women looked to an older form of interaction with the state’ (p. 126). This dramatic rise in the use of petitions presents an important source to ‘gauge women’s ...
Vor einem Tag · Despite continuing technological advances, the ideas that history and civilization were inherently progressive and that such advances were always good came under increasing attack in the 19th century. Arguments arose that the values of the artist and those of society were not merely different, but in fact oftentimes opposed, and that society's current values were antithetical to further ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Rome was annexed by Napoleon and was part of the First French Empire from 1798 to 1814. Modern history, the period from the 19th century to the present. Rome came under siege again after the Allied invasion of Italy and was bombed several times. It was declared an open city on 14 August 1943.
